Missing Marokopa kids: Is this the big chance to find them? | TVNZ Breakfast

A former police negotiator has outlined how police's operation will play out as the search for missing Marokopa fugitive Tom Phillips and his three children ramps up.

On Tuesday, police announced an $80,000 reward for information that leads to the location and safe return of Ember, 8, Maverick, 9, and Jayda, 10. They have been missing since December 2021, after being taken by their father, Tom Phillips.

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